Category Archives: Universal Health Services

20 Aug
0

ALLEGATIONS OF PATIENT SEXUAL & OTHER ABUSES IN FOR-PROFIT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INDUSTRY SEQUEL YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES UNDER SCRUTINY

by in Acadia, All, Children, All, Foster Care, Patient Rights, All, Psychiatric Abuse, Sequel, Sequel Youth and Family Services, SequelCare, Sexual Assault, All, Teens, UHS, Universal Health Services

Allegations of sexual abuse of patients in the for-profit behavioral hospital industry are rife.  Last year, Universal Health Services (UHS) closed its Timberlawn psychiatric hospital in Texas in the wake of allegations that a 13-year-old girl was raped at the ...

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31 Jul
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Multi-Million Fines Insufficient to Curb Abuse in For-Profit Behavioral Health Industry

by in Baker Act, All, Foster Care, Fraud, All, Health Care Fraud, All, Psychiatric Abuse, Sequel, Sequel Youth and Family Services, SequelCare, UHS, Universal Health Services

Universal Health Services (UHS), which owns a chain of for-profit psychiatric facilities in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, has agreed to pay $127 million to settle a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) civil probe into alleged fraud. The settlement ...

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24 Jul
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In wake of $1.4B Suboxone Payout, Mental Health Watchdog, CCHR, Says Psychiatric Industry and Hospitals Cash in on Opioid Crisis

by in Acadia, All, Drug Warnings, All, Drugs in Florida, All, DSM, All, Health Care Fraud, All, Over Prescribing Meds, All, Prescription Drugs, All, Psychiatric Abuse, All, Psychiatrists / Psychologists, All, Psychiatry, UHS, Universal Health Services

A pharmaceutical company’s recent $1.4 billion settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over probes into its addiction treatment drug, Suboxone Film (buprenorphine and naloxone), has raised concerns about psychiatric drug treatments offered as solutions to the opioid crisis, the ...

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26 Aug
0

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY A PSYCHOTHERAPIST – ARREST WARRANT ISSUED

by in All, Mental Health Care, All, News, All, Psychiatric Abuse, All, Psychiatrists / Psychologists, UHS, Universal Health Services

POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA – According to a Detective in the Polk County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations, a warrant has been issued for the arrest of psychiatrist Robert Morgenthal for “Sexual Misconduct by a Therapist”. This comes on the heels ...

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26 Mar
0

For-profit Psychiatric Hospitals Rake in Millions While Under Investigation for Fraud

by in Baker Act, Fraud, All, Health Care Fraud, Involuntary Commitment, All, Medicaid, All, Medicare, All, Mental Health Human Rights, Patient Rights, All, Psychiatric Abuse, All, Psychiatrists / Psychologists, All, Psychiatry, All, The Baker Act, UHS, Universal Health Services

For-profit psychiatric hospitals have continued cheating taxpayers and abusing government programs with fraudulent billing practices. At the same time they are piling up record profits, these facilities deliver terrible service to patients and create a dangerous working environment for hospital ...

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